As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes amount attention oblige
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker energygoodwrite Change image and share on social
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. Marilyn Hacker aerobiceliminateexercise Change image and share on social
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. Marilyn Hacker acquireconnectlanguage Change image and share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. Michael Morpurgo attentionchildremember Change image and share on social
I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' Tony Abbott answercountrygreat share on social